There is the world you know, the world you have always known; and then you blink, and there is a place you never had any inkling of, and it spreads out across your eyescape. And...

When you can see your life in retrospect, the romanticism of how good things once were gives way to the reality that positives and negatives comprise every day and every decade. (235)

I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next...

You gotta take chances in this life or you’re alreadydead.

… millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

The most wonderful and amazing people are those, who are true to themselves…

A man without enemies is a dishonest man.

Life is so full of rough edges – small tasks and expectations that scratch you bloody and remind you that you’re naked and alone.

You are here for today and come back never. Still you will live in my heart for now and forever.

There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

The act of living one’s own destiny includes a series of stages that are far beyond our understanding, whose objective is always to… make us learn the lessons necessary to fulfill our own destiny.

When I look back all is flux, without beginning and flowing towards no end, or none that I shall experience, except as a final full stop. The items of flotsam that I choose to salvage...

down unlit ,unmarked & forgotten roads of REASON & PURPOSE

If you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends.

In una parola, ero troppo codardo per fare quello che sapevo essere giusto, così come ero stato troppo codardo per evitare di fare quello che sapevo sbagliato. A quel tempo, non avevo avuto nessuna esperienza...

For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People...

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Be loving; be caring; be compassionate; be passionate.

Sometimes you just have to stop and take in your surroundings. Really look at where you are in life, otherwise it’s just going to pass you by. Regret is a heavy word to live with.”...

They are so very cultivated, so very rich and so utterly charming. At the end of each day, they all ask themselves: ‘Is it time I stopped?’ And they all reply: ‘If I did, there...

It’s not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There’s a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does.

Mama told me to make a special point to remember the best times of my life. There are so many hard things to live through, and latching on to the good things will give you...

Stone me, what a life!

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused—in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened—by the recurrence of Christmas. There are people...

Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we’ll all get home safely.

Maybe happiness didn’t have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures. Wearing slippers and watching the...

A person with love, enthusiasm, and passion can improve the whole nation.

I thought maybe if she could express herself rather than suffer herself, if she had a way to relieve the burden, she lived for nothing more than living, with nothing to get inspired by, to...

The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent is...

Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event?

But life has a way of chopping people off at the knees, and he was no exception. Ten years of his life had been stolen from him. Now he wasn’t wasting another minute. He wanted...

Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss?

Whenever we take the focus off ourselves and move it outward, we benefit. Life’s most fortunate ironies are that what’s best for the long run is best now, and selflessness serves our interests far better...

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was...

Love is the only investment that gives dividends without failure.

All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.

An intense life needs a touch of madness.

Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.

It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all these bits of memory together with the diaries and letters and the scribbled...

From the time we’re born until we die, we’re kept busy with artificial stuff that isn’t important.

Depression weighs you down like a rock in a river. You don’t stand a chance. You can fight and pray and hope you have the strength to swim, but sometimes, you have to let yourself...

The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.

On the outside, the man of today is carefully groomed, perhaps unnecessarily and over carefully clean; while inside he is dirtier than the dirtiest animal—whose anus is as clean as its mouth, provided said animal...

Live with guts feeling but not with reasoning.

I’m not saying it’s going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that’s no reason to give up. You’ll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After...

How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we’re just so small.

What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.

Just remember that when nobody else was there for you I was.And when nobody else gave a damn I did.

When you feel like there is nothing else matter, you just feel like unable to breath because you finally realise that even the oxygen you’re breathing is polluted.